(from the article `fern`) ...and sperm and eggs rapidly, utilizing food in the spores. Many inhabitants of dry rock cliffs, especially in the maidenhair family, Adiantaceae, ... Reproduction in sterile fern hybrids is also accomplished by the process of apogamy, in which spores possessing the same chromosome complement as the ... ......Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/88

apogamy, apogamic, apogamous, apogamously Absence of sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction, agamogenesis; specifically, in ferns and other cryptogams, production of the perfect plant directly from a bud on the prothallus instead of by the usual sexual process.Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2788/

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